 | 1837 - 538 pages
...hath threshed the corn, That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lies him down (lie lubbar fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks...the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full, out of door he flings Kre the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the talus, to 1ะบ"1 they creep, By whispering... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, no And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, us By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no lubber] ' There is a pretty tale of a witch that had... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, ns By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no lubber] ' There is a pretty tale of a witch that had... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
 | William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pages
...hath thrashed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks...the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of door be flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings." Sir Walter Scott says, " tradition has ascribed... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...thresh'd the corn That ten day-lah'rers could not end; Then lays him down the luhhar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." The following on the same suhject is from the " Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd cts require great means of enterprise; Thou art unknown, unfriended, low of birth, A carpenter thy lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. And, stretch'd and," she Boon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...fiend, And, stretch'dout all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; L ALLEGRO. And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
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When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, no And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full... 
